Sabian Symbols · Aries · Degree 17 of 30
Aries 17°
The traditional symbol for this degree, one of the 360 Sabian symbols first recorded in 1925: “Two proper spinsters sit together in silence.”
THE SYMBOL
“Two proper spinsters sit together in silence.”
Aries 17° · Sabian symbols, devised 1925 (Marc Edmund Jones, clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler)
Remember to round up: a planet or point at 9°30′ takes the 10° symbol, not the 9° one.
What this degree describes
Company that needs no talking to be real company. This degree honors a kind of relationship built entirely on shared presence and restraint, propriety held not as coldness but as its own form of intimacy. There is dignity in the silence, not loneliness; two people who have long since said what needed saying, now simply, comfortably, in the room together. Aries, so often about declaring the self loudly, finds here a quieter, equally valid way to be known.
When a planet or point falls here
A planet at this degree often favors companionship that doesn't need constant conversation to feel close, and a comfort with restraint that some read, wrongly, as distance. Saturn here can describe relationships built on long, steady, undemonstrative loyalty. It is a good degree for anyone whose closest bonds run quiet rather than expressive.
Which relationship in your life is closest precisely because it no longer needs words to prove itself?
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